Hofestra full rides??

mom2collegekids
Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:13:57 +0000

There could be several aspects to this story since you’ve mentioned two distinct - but different - factors…

1) size of family

2) top 20% of class

First, if his family is largish and income is not high, then Hofstra may have awarded him a lot of aid based on financial need. He may have gotten a no loan full need financial package based on EFC.

Secondly, if he had strong stats (GPA and test scores), then he may have gotten a generous merit scholarship. Or, all of his aid may have been based on need (which has little to do with being in the top 20%, except that the school may have felt that his stats were good enough for the school to help him with his determined need.).

The combined amounts may have equaled a “full-ride.” But wasn’t a full-ride scholarship (based on stats). Many people say that they got a full-ride, but what they got was financial aid for having high need.

It sounds like you’re looking for a full ride based on merit. That’s very different.

Hofstra doesn’t give full-rides to the top 10% of a high school class. Have you looked at their scholarship page?

It looks like there are some “full-tuition” scholarships, but not “full-ride” (which is tuition, room, board, books, etc). Scholarship Listings - Hofstra University - Acalog ACMS™;

From the website:
*All applicants with superior high school records and **standardized test scores **are automatically considered by the University.
*

Since standardized test scores have nothing to do with rank, no one could say that the top percent of any high school would get a scholarship.